[Hallicrafters] SX-88 Handbook

[WA1KBQ at aol.com]

Richard,
 
Lots of SX-88 info will turn up with an Internet search including  the 
original manual, a 1954 QST write-up, a  very recent and  interesting summary by 
Jay Musgrove; W1VD on his SX-88  restoration which includes performance 
test results and lots of other  assorted pictures, facts and opinions, etc. 
SX-88 is a 6 band dual  conversion general coverage receiver which included a 
special High-Q 50 KC  IF amplifier with step switched bandwidth from 250 
cycles to 10KC,  step switched audio filter and in addition was the first 
commercially produced  communications receiver to have an SSB function marked on 
its front panel.  Around 100 receivers are currently accounted for and an 
educated guess places  production somewhere around 500. It is a good receiver 
when restored but  therein lies the rub. After almost 60 years most of the 
capacitors  are badly decomposed and most of the resistors have drifted 
upwards way out  of bounds so expecting good working order is mostly out of the 
question unless  you can buy a properly restored receiver or you have the 
skill and desire to do  it yourself. IMO and considering they are scarce a good 
original complete  as-found SX-88 that needs to be restored should probably 
sell for no more  than $2500 but supply and demand economics has resulted in 
 an usually high selling prices from time to time. The current SX-88  
auction you are referring to might actually sell for something in the $2500  
range but it too needs a complete overhaul so it will likely be a  listing for a 
long time before the seller realizes he does not have what a  buyer in that 
price range will be looking for.
 
Regards, 
Greg; WA1KBQ
 
 
In a message dated 3/18/2013 2:05:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com writes:

Is there an SX-88 handbook on the web?  I mean a free  
one.  I got curious about the receiver piqued by the one on 
ebay  at the moment for almost 9K. I just got wondering what 
is in it.  The  comments I can find about it are quite 
ambivalent so I am curious.   Does anyone on the list 
actually have one?


--
Richard  Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com  

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